commercial
/kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.92 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
noun
A commercial trader, as opposed to an individual speculator.
adj
Of or pertaining to commerce.
adj
Designating such an airplane flight.
Example Sentences
- "She was in a commercial for breakfast cereal."
- "I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot."
- "Five persons went to the house after the milkman was gone, and that there Arab party was safe inside, — three of them was commercials, that I know, because afterwards they came to me."
- "‘I’ve seen him take things and lift them into a dray - things that - that - that - well, that you and me together couldn’t lift an inch!’ ‘Go on!’ and the commercial again squinted in the direction of Dan."
- "Tom said that homosexuals hate “commercials,” male prostitutes, and if the homosexual was drunk and angry, he might have committed murder."
- "With the commercials there is no intensity of feeling and no later animosity; there is emotional and sexual fakery, but no prolonged post-sexual bargaining. […] Paradoxically these boys dissociate themselves from the commercials, yet engage in prostitution only when they require the money."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *merks Latin merx Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin commercium Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin commerciālislbor. French commercialbor. English commercial From French commercial (“of, or pertaining to commerce”), from Late Latin commercialis, from Latin commercium. By surface analysis, commerce + -ial.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: commercial, commercialis, commercium
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈmɝ.ʃəl/
- British English: /kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/